Community Application Tools
1. Bioeconomy Planner2. Industry Impact Evaluator
3. Localized Economy Evaluator
Bioeconomy Planner
Purpose
The Bioeconomy Planner will be used to evaluate current and potential uses of bio-based materials
in a regional economy. The application will couple data on regional supply of virgin or reclaimed bio-based materials
with an assortment of technologies using those materials and allow a user to select a mix of technologies and relative
percentages to perform an analysis. The technologies will include models of supply chains for the biotechnology.
The application will provide data on costs as well as impacts of technologies on the local and total environmental profiles.
Intended Users
- Local planners and development organizations
- Bio-based industries
Questions to Inform
What are the best potential uses of our biomass resources in terms of use efficiency, employment, local value added,
and environmental outcomes?
The New Bioeconomy: Advanced Biofuels
Categories of Biotech Industries
More about Bioeconomy Planner
Industry Evaluator
Purpose
The Industry Evaluator application allows users to compare the economic and environmental impact of potential industries as they weigh options for recruiting companies and new technologies to their region.
Intended Users
Community planners, economic developers, educators, students and the general public investigating economic transitions.
Questions to Inform
Is the recruitment of a specific industry preferable to another? Based on what economic and environmental impacts?
What existing suppliers are present and how might they feed into a prospective industry?
What educational demographics and regional college or technical programs might provide an available workforce in this region?
If we do recruit an industry, how can we work with them to reduce the environmental impacts of their supply chain input and production output, while increasing employment levels and value-added revenue?
Local Economy Evaluator
Auto Parts Transitions - Electric and Hydrogen
(Select West Central Georgia 6 and 12 county regions above.)
Purpose
Tools for looking at production in sets of counties (that may span state boundaries) to find opportunities for supply-chains in proximity to where goods and services are produced within a region.
Intended Users
Economic planners
Industry planners
Educators
Questions to Inform
Which portions of production are consumed locally within a state?
Which portions of production are transported outside the state?